Study of the planned X-ray telescope IXO. (Credit: NASA)
Looking for the nucleic acid precipitate after extracting DNA from green tea, during a DIYBio workshop at UCLA on Feb. 27, 2010. Credit: Kenneth Wei Photography
Searching Haroon, an artisanal miner, looks for emeralds deep inside the Hindu Kush. Matthieu Aikins 
BlackBerry PlayBook. RIM
The "high multiplicity collision" signal picked up by the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Photo: CERN 
Full of hot air: The EU has targeted 10,000 new wind farms, but a study has revealed that it costs nearly twice as much to produce wind power as it does from traditional gas or coal power stations
Advances in stone toolmaking and other cultural innovations achieved by modern humans shortly after 40,000 years ago supported survival in harsh, postvolcanic habitats. iStockphoto
Photo: Fibre-optic probes could use lasers to distinguish between cancerous, pre-cancerous and healthy cells
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This artist's concept of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from 2006 features the spacecraft's main bus facing down, toward the red planet. The large silver circular feature above the spacecraft bus is the high-gain antenna, the spacecraft's main means of communicating with both Earth and other spacecraft. NASA/JPL
An archaeologist uncovers a skeleton from the Uruk colony's remains. Was this person killed by his/her own people? Photo courtesy Professor Clemens Reichel
To the Launch Pad Space Shuttle Discovery crawled toward Launch Pad A this week, preparing for its final flight in November. via Flickr/ forthebirds (CC licensed) 
Image: Quantum computers will be able to conduct far more complex calculations than current computers
The parasite passes from one human to another via a female Anopheles mosquito which hands it on when the insect takes a blood meal. Hemera
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Global map of groundwater depletion, measured in cubic meters of water per year. (Credit: Image courtesy of American Geophysical Union)
More teen football players are going to the emergency room for concussions. Credit: M. Pappas.
Photo of third-generation Kindle. Courtesy Amazon.com
TRINKETS OF SURVIVAL Human-made items, such as these pendants fashioned from animals' teeth, appeared in a Russian cave shortly after volcanic eruptions around 40,000 years ago wiped out Neandertal populations in the area, researchers say.Golovanova et al.
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The Blackpad has not been officially released yet but some technology bloggers say these pictures are what it is likely to look like
This image shows concentrations of Methane discovered on Mars. Click to enlarge this image. NASA
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A group of people watched television at a slum in Gulbai Tekra, an area in the city of Ahmedabad in India. (Jaydeep Bhatt) 
Iceberg in the icefjord near the city of Ilulissat in Greenland. While the temperature drop was evident in data from all Northern Hemisphere oceans, it was most pronounced in the northern North Atlantic, a region of the world ocean thought to be climatically dynamic. (Credit: iStockphoto/Anders Peter Amsnæs)
The web of the Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini), can span some square feet (2.8 square meters) and is attached to each riverbank by anchor threads as long as 82 feet (25 meters). Credit: Matjaz Kuntner.
The equinox, on Wednesday evening, marks the beginning of fall and less daylight for the Northern Hemisphere. The change can have profound effects on animals and is also partially responsible for fall foliage. Credit: Dreamstime.
SolarEagle Boeing's SolarEagle will fly continuously for five years under DARPA's Vulture II program. Boeing 
Five-dimensional black strings evolve into black holes connected by black string filaments, in this computer simulation. Credit: Pretorius/Lehner
An aerial view of the offshore energy park Alpha Ventus in the North Sea, about 45 kilometres (27 miles) north of the island of Borkum, April 27, 2010. "Alpha Ventus," the first German wind park in the North Sea, has become home to a new biotope. On the foundations of the turbines, which began operating this spring, scientists have found oysters, crabs, sea anemones, and mussels. (Ingo Wagner/Pool/Reuters)
The birth control pill's simplicity helped it beat out competition - diaphragms, timed intercourse - in 1960. But today having to take a pill daily is a major shortcoming. TIM MATSUI / Getty Images
Card 2.0 The Multi-Account credit card lets you toggle between different accounts at the same bank. Dynamics Inc. 
Exercise has been shown to be ineffective when it comes to losing weight – dieting is a better route Photograph: Getty
Views of the inflated cortical surface showing areas of brain grey matter correlating with introspective accuracy. Credit: Science/AAAS
Frozen assets: icy geysers from the south polar region of Enceladus. AFP / Getty Images
BAY CITY: Sea-level rise due to climate change may imperil coastal development.
On the front: The cover of Hawkes' book New York At Night. The 43-year-old spent 15 weeks putting his collection together
Will Smith delivered an alien baby in the movie "Men in Black." But would he baptize it? Amblin Entertainment
Great white shark feeding on a dead Bryde's Whale off Seal Island, Cape, South Africa Photo: ALISON KOCK / SPECIALIST STOCK / BARCROFT MEDIA 
Photo: The Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York City is one of the company's flagship stores in terms of both customer traffic and architecture and design. (Credit: Marguerite Reardon/CNET)
An example of the "mouseover" code exploit being used on Twitter: this example is harmless but many others are not. Source: Sophos.com
